• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.471-480
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• 2012

Reliable detection of primary user activity increases the opportunity to access temporarily unused bands and prevents harmful interference to the primary system. By extracting a global decision from local sensing results, cooperative sensing achieves high reliability against multipath fading. For the effective combining of sensing results, which is generalized by a likelihood ratio test, the fusion center should learn some parameters, such as the probabilities of primary transmission, false alarm, and detection at the local sensors. During the training period in supervised learning, the on/off log of primary transmission serves as the output label of decision statistics from the local sensor. In this paper, we extend unsupervised learning techniques with an expectation maximization algorithm for cooperative spectrum sensing, which does not require an external primary transmission log. Local sensors report binary hard decisions to the fusion center and adjust their operating points to enhance learning performance. Increasing the number of sensors, the joint-expectation step makes a confident classification on the primary transmission as in the supervised learning. Thereby, the proposed scheme provides accurate parameter estimates and a fast convergence rate even in low signal-to-noise ratio regimes, where the primary signal is dominated by the noise at the local sensors.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.5365-5380
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• 2016

Estimation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is an important problem in wireless communication systems. It has been studied for various constellation types and channels using different estimation techniques. Maximum likelihood estimation is a technique which provides efficient and in most cases unbiased estimators. In this paper, we have applied maximum likelihood estimation for systems employing square or cross QAM signals which are undergoing slow flat Rayleigh fading. The problem has been considered under various scenarios like data-aided (DA), non-data-aided (NDA) and partially data-aided (PDA) and the performance of each type of estimator has been evaluated and compared. It has been observed that the performance of DA estimator is best due to usage of pilot symbols, with the drawback of greater bandwidth consumption. However, this can be catered for by using partially data-aided estimators whose performance is better than NDA systems with some extra bandwidth requirement.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2014

In this paper, we analyze the effect of the coherence bandwidth of wireless channels on leakage suppression methods for discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based channel estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Virtual carriers in an OFDM symbol cause orthogonality loss in DFT-based channel estimation, which is referred to as the leakage problem. In order to solve the leakage problem, optimal and suboptimal methods have already been proposed. However, according to our analysis, the performance of these methods highly depends on the coherence bandwidth of wireless channels. If some of the estimated channel frequency responses are placed outside the coherence bandwidth, a channel estimation error occurs and the entire performance worsens in spite of a high signal-to-noise ratio.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2012

In this paper, a target signal detection method using multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is proposed. The MUSIC algorithm is a subspace-based direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method. Using the inverse of the eigenvalue-weighted eigen spectra, the algorithm detects the DOAs of multiple sources. To apply the algorithm in target signal detection for GSC-based beamforming, we utilize its spectral response for the DOA of the target source in noisy conditions. The performance of the proposed target signal detection method is compared with those of the normalized cross-correlation (NCC), the fixed beamforming, and the power ratio method. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the conventional ones in receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves.

• 소음진동
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.341-352
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• 1993

Although a frequency analysis by FFT algorithm has been widely used in the vibration community, this approach has somewhat limited features when an analysist want to see the details of frequency trends because FFT shows only energy contents along frequencies. So the concept of instantaneous frequency that represents the dominant frequency component at each time needs to be introduced. In this paper, to get the instantaneous frequency, two methods are used. Methods using Hilbert transform and evolutionary spectrum are those. One of the problems of estimating instantaneous frequency using Hilbert transform is that it is normally very sensitive to signal to noise ratio(SNR) because of the differentiation. Moving window is applied on the estimation of instantaneous frequency, and instantaneous frequency histogram are used to handle this problem and proved to be very effective. Computer simulations for various signals have been done to understand the characteristics of instantaneous frequency. The usefulness of signal analysis using instantaneous frequency was tested by three simple experiments, which were engine experiment, beam experiment, and car door experiment. The instantaneous frequency analysis is found to be a useful technique to analyze the signals that have time varying frequencies.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권5호
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• pp.843-850
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• 2017

The EMG amplitude estimator, which has been investigated as an indicator of muscle force, is utilized as the control input to artificial prosthetic limbs. This paper describes an application of the optimal EMG amplitude estimator to the surface EMG signals recorded during constant isometric %MVC (maximum voluntary contraction) for 30 seconds and reports on assessing performance of the amplitude estimator from the application. Surface EMG signals, a total of 198 signals, were recorded from biceps brachii muscle over the range of 20-80%MVC isometric contraction. To examine the estimator performance, a SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) was computed from each amplitude estimate. The results of the study indicate that ARV(average rectified value) and RMS(root mean square) amplitude estimation with forth order whitening filter and 250[ms] moving average window length are optimal and showed the mean SNR improvement of about 50%, 40% and 20% for each 20%MVC, 50%MVC and 80%MVC surface EMG signals, respectively.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권11C호
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• pp.1111-1117
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• 2003

이동 통신 시스템에서 이동체의 속도 추정은 수신신호의 최대 도플러 주파수를 찾는 과정이다. 하지만 실제적인 이동 통신 환경에서 이동체의 속도 추정은 부가된 잡음의 영향으로 많은 왜곡을 가지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이동 통신 환경에서 최대 도플러 주파수 추정 시 부가 잡음의 영향을 억제하기 위한 결정 궤환 적응형 대역 제한(Decision Feedback Doppler Adaptive Band-Limit : DF-DABL) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 잡음의 2차 통계 특성을 대역 제한 방법을 통하여 신호의 특성과 일치하게 함으로서 부가된 잡음의 영향을 효과적으로 제거한다. 특히 제안된 방법에서는 신호대잡음비 (SNR)와 같은 추가 채널 정보를 필요로 하지 않는다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.165-170
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• 2014

음성 인식을 위한 전처리기로 주변 잡음을 제거해 주는 음성향상 기법이 강조되고 있다. 다양한 음성향상 기법들 중 코드북 기반 음성향상 기법은 nonstationary 잡음 환경에서도 효율적으로 동작한다. 하지만, 기존 코드북 기반 음성향상 기법에서는 입력 신호와 음성 및 잡음 코드벡터 간에 미스매치가 발생하여 부정확한 게인이 추정되는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 부정확한 게인을 보상하기 위해 long-term 잡음 추정 알고리즘을 사용하여 매 프레임 별로 신호 대 잡음비기반의 Normalized Weighting Factor (NWF)를 구하고, 이것을 기존 게인에 보상하는 방식을 제안한다. 제안된 코드북 기반 음성향상 기법은 기존 코드북 기반 음성향상 기법에 비해 향상된 성능을 보였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2015

폐색영역 탐지(Occlusion detection)와 중간값 필터(Median filter)를 조합한 새로운 움직임 추정 기반의 프레임율 변환(Frame rate up-conversion based on motion estimation) 기술을 소개한다. 움직임 추정은 움직임 벡터(Motion vector)를 얻기 위해 수행한다. 그 후 폐색영역 탐지방법은 폐색된 부분에서 움직임 벡터를 개선한다. 폐색된 영역에서는 잘못된 움직임 벡터를 찾을 가능성이 높으므로 움직임 벡터 의존율이 적은 중간값 필터를 적용하고, 비폐색된 영역에서는 움직임 벡터가 연속적이고 신뢰도가 높으므로 BDMC(Bi-Directional Motion Compensated interpolation)를 적용하여 보간 영상을 생성한다. 양방향 움직임 벡터를 사용하는 BDMC는 움직임 벡터의 연속성과 신뢰도가 높을수록 좋은 결과를 얻는다. 실험결과에서 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 방법보다 더 나은 성능을 갖는다. 실험에서의 평균 PSNR(Peak signal to noise ratio)은 테스트 시퀀스들에 대하여 BDMC 대비 약 0.16dB 향상되었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.207-215
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• 2020

두 개 수신기에 도래한 신호 간의 시간 지연을 추정 방법에는 여러 가지가 존재한다. 그 중에서 두 수신기에 입력되는 서로 다른 신호간의 상호 상관으로부터 상대적인 지연을 추정하는 Generalized Cross Correlation(GCC) 방법은 안정적인 성능을 내는 전통적으로 유명한 방법이다. 그러나 GCC 방법은 단일 주파수 신호를 사용하는 경우에 일반 광대역 신호를 사용하였을 때보다 더 높은 신호 대 잡음비에서부터 추정 성능이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 이 같은 현상을 개선하기 위해서 협대역 단일 주파수 신호에 대해 GCC를 위한 네 가지 전 처리기를 살펴본다. 시뮬레이션을 통해서 처리기를 사용하였을 때가 전 처리기를 전혀 사용하지 않았을 때보다 100 msec 길이 송신 신호에 대해서 최대 9 dB의 성능 이득을 얻었고, 1 s 길이 송신 신호에 대해서는 최대 4 dB의 성능 이득이 있음을 보인다.